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neph

noun

neph is a noun meaning “Abbreviation of nephew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of neph is nephs.

What does neph mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of nephew.

  2. 2

    rareslangA nephrologist.

    My neph wants the oral surgeon to use nothing but Novacaine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of neph

  • nephs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is neph?

Neph appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does neph come from?

Shortening.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).